As always, that which lends itself to regulation via market should be private and that which does not should be nationalized. So which one is medicine?
Medical care that is needed suddenly and urgently must be nationalized because the consumer of this care doesn’t shop the market and therefore the market is not capable of regulating its participants in that case.
Medical care that planned ahead of time, not urgently needed or otherwise allows people to shop the market should be private.
But this is not the issue. Whether or not medicine of one kind or another is private or public doesn’t matter as long as the medical establishment is corrupt and inefficient. Corruption and inefficiency are possible in both scenarios. Too few people in the public appreciate that it is the massive corruption and inefficiency of the medical establishment that is the cause of America’s healthcare problem. Doctors are in hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt by the time they wear a stethoscope. Hospitals are charging ten dollars for an aspirin. Patients can sue and cause material damage to medical practitioners even if the medical practitioner did nothing wrong. The system is broken. It doesn’t cost 300k to train a fucking doctor. It never did in the past and it doesn’t now either.